On April 29, Atlanta officials cut the ribbon on Cop City, a $117-million police militarization facility. It cost four times the original estimate—not counting the person murdered by police and the 61 people facing trumped up RICO charges.
And that's just the beginning.
The real costs are still in the future: the lives and freedoms that the police who train at this facility will take from us. Under the current regime, there can be no more illusions: every dollar that goes to police is a dollar for autocracy. Like Donald Trump, the city officials who suppressed the referendum on Cop City are making no pretense of democracy anymore.
At the same time, those who resisted Cop City have pointed the way to the kind of struggle it will take for us to get free. Now more than ever, it is crucial to learn from the fight to #StopCopCity.
https://crimethinc.com/CopCity2025